Small, fast, modern HTTP server for Erlang/OTP. https://ninenines.eu
Cowboy is a small, fast and modern HTTP server for Erlang/OTP.
Goals
Cowboy aims to provide a complete HTTP stack in a small code base. It is optimized for low latency and low memory usage, in part because it uses binary strings.
Cowboy provides routing capabilities, selectively dispatching requests to handlers written in Erlang.
Because it uses Ranch for managing connections, Cowboy can easily be embedded in any other application.
Cowboy is clean and well tested Erlang code.
Sponsors
The project is currently sponsored by Sameroom.
The original SPDY implementation was sponsored by LeoFS Cloud Storage. It has since been superseded by HTTP/2.
Online documentation
Offline documentation
- While still online, run
make docs - User guide available in
doc/in PDF and HTML formats - Function reference man pages available in
doc/man3/anddoc/man7/ - Run
make install-docsto install man pages on your system - Full documentation in Asciidoc available in
doc/src/ - Examples available in
examples/from https://github.com/ninenines/cowboy
